Queensryche - The Mission Lyrics
In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
'til sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
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Queensryche The Mission Comments
great Stuff!
In the TOP 10 Albums in the Music History
“I look around. My room is filled with candles. Each one a story but they end the same.”
Probably my all-time favorite song lyrics.
Great song. Sahaj Ticotin's cover is also insane. (Ra's singer)
I have always always thought the opening lyrics in the chorus were "waiting for deaths number" since ive been 8 years old...
Επος επων....
Too bad they didn't make a movie for this album
2027 and still rocking this!.. Yes I am a time traveler 🤟
My mission saves the world, and I stand PROUD
0:21 when I see Donald Trump on the TV and takes out a gun.
Banda magnífica
What do you mean "Not Really Queensryche"...? This is the REAL Queensryche at their absolute finest! They should've quit after this album because it NEVER got better...
Wait what?
Geoff was brilliant and so full of power and Dynamics! The band was tight and will never be duplicated!
[News Broadcast:] "...informing Washington, a technical violation of the 1972 ABM Treaty..."
[Preacher:] "...I'm asking for hands to be uplifted in just a moment. God the Holy Ghost is calling out to embrace you.
I want you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks and take his hand."
[Nikki:] "Bless me father for I have sinned."
[Preacher:] : "Some of you are in a state of rebellion right now, you're saying..."
In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this Holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
'til sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
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I remember this song not by the vocals, but great DeGarmo/Wilton guitars
@3:02.... Now I know where Weezer stole the song Buddy Holly
How many Nikkis are out there?!!!?!
I find it funny that it says bless me father for I have sinned instead of forgive me
Nikki si sente male, è triste e stranito. E’ successo qualcosa nella sua vita, un avvenimento terribile che lo ha reso solo un opaco replicante della persona che era prima. L’organizzazione gli ha comandato di fare qualcosa contro la sua volontà…
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Sono sulla sedia di legno
Accanto alla mia finestra
La mia faccia è nata dalla pioggia che cade
Parlo alle ombre emesse da una candela
E recito le frasi che appaiono sul muro
Non riesco a spiegare… questo santo dolore
Sei giorni fa la mia vita
è stata colpita da uno shock
Mi hanno detto che gli ordini
provenivano dall’alto
Servo ancora all’organizzazione,
hanno il mio numero
“Segui la causa, ragazzo,
sì, adesso conosci le regole del gioco”
Aspetterò qua giorni e giorni
Finché Mary non verrà a lavare via i miei peccati
Lei è la ragazza che può alleviare il mio dolore
Lei è la mia unica amica
E può aiutarmi a trovare la mia strada
Cerco nel mio passato, e trovo un momento
In cui ero più giovane
Ero l’obiettivo di una nuova società
Ero stato scelto per soppiantare i leader
E per colpire gli obiettivi
Di questa nuova realtà clandestina
Aspetterò giorni e giorni
Finché Mary non verrà
a lavare via i miei peccati
Lei è la ragazza
che può alleviare il mio dolore
Il mio amore per lei
mi aiuterà a trovare la mia strada
La mia missione ha salvato il mondo
E che io ne ero orgoglioso
La mia missione ha cambiato il mondo
Ha trasformato la mia vita
Mi guardo attorno e vedo che la mia stanza
è piena di candele
Ognuna di esse è una storia,
ma finiscono tutte allo stesso modo
Mi nasconderò qua,
la legge non mi troverà mai
I muri racconteranno la storia del mio dolore
Aspetterò giorni e giorni
Finché Mary non verrà
a lavare via i miei peccati
Lei è la ragazza
che può alleviare il mio dolore
Lei mi preparerà per
la mia missione fatta di dolore
Diranno che la mia missione
ha salvato il mondo
E che io ne ero orgoglioso
La mia missione ha cambiato il mondo
L’underground insorgerà
e salverà questo mondo
Ne saremo tutti orgogliosi
La nostra missione ha cambiato il mondo
Cambieremo il mondo
Ne saremo tutti orgogliosi
🕊♥️✝️
This is the best song of the album, not the I don't believe in love..
Love whole album,Ranks up there with The Wall
"I look around my room is filled with candles, each one a story, but they end the same"... one of my favorite lyircs on the album.
this album is perfect to play while you're playing Hitman
My favorite band all time being excellent! Mindcrime just might be the best album ever!
The best album ever!
M*I*N*D*C*R*I*M*E
Beyond epic! - Queensryche at their absolute peak!
Greatest album ever made
There isn't a weak track on the album
it turned my life around at about 3 min is my fave of all time.
This is my all time favorite album....and I'm not even that much into metal. More of a proggy. IMHO, this album and Rage for Order are the only two worth anything. Empire has 3 or 4 good songs on it. The ep and 1st LP sound too much like Iron Maiden. Promised Land can be summed up in two words: poor me." I still gave them another chance after that when "Hear in the Now Frontier" came out. Tragic. In 1988 I thought these guys were the next Rush. I was so wrong.
Promised Land isn't really "poor me." It's more like "what now?"
♡♡♡♡♡♡
Anybody know what photos they used for the album cover?
What anuprise whose buying
Does my company like my choice ahpease sells n hmph pondering
One of the best song I have ever heard
Yes, I still wear this and Empire out.
Bless me Father for I have sinned as I put this loaded pistol in my mouth.....
Didn't this win album of the century award?
The best antifascist album of all times
That Geoff + Chris harmonizing = next level
My mission saved the world.. Where do you come up with this epic classic album.. LSD.. Pot.. Meth.. It all brings the flavor out of this album.. Im sorry but this is better than Pink Floyd The Wall...
Meth.
It was meth.
"My love for her will help me find my way!"
Is she listening the roal Dutches
Here those volkcoals
Not only is this the best song on this album, it is one of Queensryche's very best songs in general. Epic song from beginning to end.
This comment can't be more true.
After listening metal the last 25 years i can say that this is the best metal album ever
wow wow wow
Sahaj covers Queensryche's "The Mission" https://youtu.be/1-sSGKiQgZg (This guy kills it)
If you love this go watch Sahaj Ticotin of RA cover this song!!! U will b blown away I promise!!! 🤘🏻
Holy
Fucking
Shit
Something to be said about an album that is 30 years old & still gives you goosebumps ,Technical Ecstasy !
Technical Ecstasy is from Black Sabbath and has more than 40 years... joking, of course, xD. Operation Mindcrime is really a masterpiece
Why does the cover art say "Not Really" over the band's name?
Just assuming, but i feel like "not queens", "just ryche" is a reference or to the band queen, or to the fact they dont wanna be queens? I had the same question xD
@Silvano Bianchini The second word isn't "just", it's "really", and that's not how the official cover is though. I think it's just how the image that was posted with it... apparently the person who posted it edited it for some reason. I was basically asking them, so I wonder if they'll see this thread and reply.
@Jei Lieb The not really is in reference to Geoff Tate and the band having a falling out many years ago and the band replaced Geoff Tate with a new lead singer, and they currently play now as Queensryche. Geoff Tate lost in a court battle for the name Queensryke but he won the rights to the Operation Mindcrime album. Therefore, somebody has put the not really on this artwork, in my opinion, there is no other Queensryche other than the original Queensryche with Geoff Tate!!! \m/. PS. I saw the original Queensryche Operation Mindcrime Tour it was awesome!
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In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this Holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy, yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
Til sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world, we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
The orders came from high above they say !.....
One powerful album
Their symbol they use is Pineal Gland/Third Eye, Thalamus, Spinal Chord, and Lower Mind! Wild!
I favorite queensryche song. Yes second is silent lucidity lol
Oh god this is tough lady wore black and enforce are my two faves not top but none the less
1. Eyes of a Stranger
2. I Don't Believe In Love
3. The Killing Words
4. Jet City Woman
5. The Mission
6. Empire
7. Another Rainy Night
8. Revolution Calling
9. Take Hold of the Flame
10. Speak
I had a nightmare picking just 10 but here's my favourites and certainly 10 worth checking out for any newbies. What's your top 10?
1/2. Roads to Madness and The Mission
3. Eyes of a Stranger
4. I Dream in Infrared
5. Queen of the Reich
6. Empire
7. Spreading the Disease
8. Speak
9. Neue Regel
10. Damaged
1. Suite Sister Mary
2. Roads To Madness
3. The Mission
4. The Lady Wore Black
5. Deliverance
6. Damaged
7. Neue Regal
8. Empire
9. Lady Jane
10. Hero
1. Roads To Madness
2. The Lady Wore Black
3. Promised Land
4. Eyes Of A Stranger
5.The Thin Line
6. I Don't Believe In Love
7 . Walking In The Shadows
8.Jet City Women
9. Someone Else. Piano version
10. Is Anybody Listening
1. Damaged
2. Out of Mind
3. I Don't Believe in Love
4. Eyes of a Stranger
5. The Real World
6. Jet City Woman
7. Another Rainy Night
8. Empire
9. Is there Anybody Listening
10. Walk in the Shadows
1.The killing words(MTV acoustic)
2.Anybody listening
3.Roads to Madness(livecrime)
4.Someone else( solo)
5.Eyes of a Stranger
6.Take Hold
7.Walk in the Shadows
8.Speak
9.The Mission..changed the world
10.I will remember(MTV acoustic)
( tough to make list)
FUCK YOU BITCH !!! IT'S THE ONE AND ONLY QUEENSRYCHE !
There will never be another metal band this awesome!
This is the best album of the past century no doubt.
Man this album just turned 30 today ROCK ON QUEENSRYCHE!!!!!!
gun control anyone?
Best song on the best album ever made.
My mission saved the world, the underground... will rise and save this world ....we'll all stand proud. Such a kick ass song with a real soulfull guitar solo.
I wonder why there was never a movie made about this album? That would have been awesome.
theklb9 There is. The film was released with the deluxe version of the album I believe. You can also find it on YouTube.
Nick Johnson can you find it at all I've been searching and can't find it anywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9q6wC84dM&list=PL2nYKEg9yx2qLFm8C95T-uGFZjsh_OhX7
Nick Johnson thanks man!
Actually, there was a special edition released (one with the CD &VHS, and CD & DVD). What pissed me off was that I didn't have either a CD or DVD player! 😡
Bless me father for I have sinned
this has got to be one of my favorites from the albumm mmm 👍👍
This is comparable to the wall and rage for order their DSOTM.
Sheer genius they were the heavy metal version of Floyd!!!
Simon Magus they did a great version of welcome to the machine!
Holy shit, you nailed it!
Come on man, please. It's not like Pink Floyd is the only other band to do a concept album! I love you as a metal brother, but that is a cheap comment. The wall was more helped by the cartoons and videos and severe promotion. A stoner's album... And they fucking wish they had a quarter of the talent Queensrych had on every single level possible. Not to mention singing ability and musicianhip in general.
Wait here for days longer
Sad how every YouTube video devolves into petty bickering. Merry Christmas, you pathetic worms.
3am, best time to listen
Kill her that's all you have to do. At 330am
do all u mf no what it's like to b a 789 10 etc kid getting strapped up getting shit pumped into u? shhhhhh...... IT IS WHAT IT IS
"Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this Holy pain"Degarmo said he was referring to Pink Floyds the Wall!
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow. Brilliant line.
Probably the best concept album ever
Until Dream Theater released Metropolis Part Two. Still...one of the greatest albums of all time.
i love iron maiden, but lets face it, this album is out of this world!!! NO ONE COMES even close to it! no one! , to me hands down without any comp, the best album ever written in the music history
One of the best, to be sure
Along with W.A.S.P.'s The Crimson Idol
I thought 2112 wasn't a concept album. It is my favorite song of all time, but the rest of the album doesn't fit the story.
I love this song it the one I listened to
geoff at his best. Never gonna hear this version again. Sad.
Brilliant song. Unstoppable band in their first decade. Witnessed them on The Warning tour, their set was an unforgettable experience.
I wish I got to see them in their hayday. Unfortunately I am to young for that
@Jensan Ruby just keep listening.))))
Sadly this was their last brilliant album
Robert Preston
YES!
FACT.
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I waited and waited
and the years passed by.
And this record wasn’t topped.
I was disappointed.
But that’s true.....
@Christian Hohbach I understand trust me
This is the best song on the album. Thank you Chris DeGarmo.
I agree
agreed.
Thank you Michael Wilton.
Not really queensryche?
It's a mystery.
It's a copyright mystery.
What's with the Not Really in the top logo???Never noticed that before....yes the best album....
Great guitar solo! Nice, soul gratifying phrasing and note selection.
acdcbagofbones damn right, ... that guitar solo will yank a tear out of your eye. Id classify it as one of the best ever. Id rather hear solos that evoke emotion rather than some malmsteen flash or that other overrated satriani
Stone Cold in the beginning
I love how much emotion Geoff did put in this tune!
damn I still love this band
Even for today, this song is so fuckin' badass...
waiting 4 days longer!!!
yes ur right the bass guitar is from grand prairie tx and dont u forget it
concept albums take attention.........................todays generation of useless assholes................texting all day...... will never understand...............walk off another subway platform.....
well said!!!!!
DiamondPR0DIGY3 Few in my generation were raised right...
One of the best albums ever.
One of?? Clearly the greatest ever
Kent Mains hands down 🤘😆
Damn Right !!! Nothing short of a Masterpiece .
the Holy Ghost is reaching out and calling out to embrace you...i want you to reach deep in to your hearts and pocketbooks and take his hand! Ha HA!
All the televangilists of 80's did that! Even Joel Osteen does that today!
Paul Bryant thats rite i here that and laugh every time
great fucken song
.such a master piece ..80's rock rules!
This is progressive metal not rock.
@Blood Eagle 88 ..no it's 80's rock, period.. not metal lol ..."progessive" is a new age term used by clueless kids lol
@james williams Haha, you're the one who is clueless. Queensryche are progressive metal you fucking poser. Everyone knows this if they know who queensryche is. Progressive is not a new age term either it has been around since the 70's. Progressive metal blends heavy metal with progressive rock. Queensryche are one of the pioneers of progressive metal. You clearly do not know your genre's.
Blood Eagle 88 agreed! Dream Theater is another progressive rock/metal group. Yes, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and Rush are just of the few other top 10’s according to watch mojo.com
Agree. 80s rock rules!
Andrew Ray are you retarded?
I have a mission to save the WHITE RACE! And I'm no crack up....let's save the south by making it ours again!!!!
And this is not Andrew Ray telling you this, I just had to respond to your little bitch ass!!!
Did you know that not all of Queesryche were WHITE..Wilton is half Japanese,Eddie is Hispanic,Geoff is half Creole.. Enough with the save the white race shit.
Both you and Andrew Ray can go fuck yourselves.
Jesse Galloway Clearly its the "anti racist" liberals who are fucking up the country
haha, best thing you could do for the south is leave it.